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Democracy allows people to vote out leadership that is perceived as failing. People don’t need to be policy experts to notice when conditions sharply decline in their lives. In a closed access system, extremely poor leadership can simply hang on to power. There are a lot of mediocre democracies, but all the worst dictatorships don’t allow real voting. You couldn’t get straight up communism in a democracy for instance.

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